Tiger Technology - The Creation of a Semiconductor Industry in East Asia

Klappentext This book grows out of a five-year collaborative research project undertaken by the authors in East Asia. They have worked with firms and institutions in Korea! Taiwan! Singapore and Malaysia! to inquire into the micro-processes of firm-level organizational learning that underpin technology leverage in an industry such as semiconductors. The processes investigated are not specific to microchips! but can be seen working in one knowledge-intensive sector after another. Mathews and Cho argue that indeed these are the processes that will shape industrial evolution in the twenty-first century! not just in East Asia but in the developed world as well. Tiger Technology concludes with an important observation - that wealth can be generated just as much through management of technology diffusion as through conventional concerns with innovation! provided the institutions of leverage are carefully constructed. Zusammenfassung This book is the result of the authors' work with firms and institutions in Korea! Taiwan! Singapore and Malaysia! inquiring into the micro-processes of firm-level organizational learning that underpin technology leverage in an industry such as semiconductors. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The 'Real' East Asian Miracle: 1. Tiger chips: the rise of East Asia in the global semiconductor industry; 2. Technology leverage as latecomer strategy; Part II. National Institutional Pathways: 3. The Tangbun boom and the chaebol: how Korea did it; 4. A cat can look at a king: how Taiwan did it; 5. Jack and the beanstalk: how Singapore and Malaysia are doing it; Part III. The Technology Leverage Strategy: 6. East Asian semiconductor industries: national strategies and sustainability; 7. Limits to technology leverage strategies; 8. National systems of economic learning: lessons from East Asia; Appendix I. Exchange rates: 1975¿97; Appendix II. Chronology; Glossary; Bibliography; Index....

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• Authors: Dong-Sung Cho, Dong-Sung (Seoul National University) Cho, Cho Dong-Sung, Mathews John a., John A. Mathews, John A. (Macquarie University Mathews, John A. Cho Mathews, Mathews John A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2007
• EAN: 9780521035675
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03567-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies; Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Political Economy